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First few days!

First few days are down, and it's going good! When I got here I went straight to a lesson in French, and six hours of lessons later I'm supposed to teach a lesson in complete French to an investigator, write a talk in French, and memorize the missionary purpose statement. 
Our zone has about 60 missionaries, most speaking French, going to Lyon, France, but some to Paris as well. There are a lot of Haitian Creole speaking missionaries, and some Malagasy speaking missionaries as well. Two are going to New Caledonia (discussed below). I'm the only one going to Canada, let alone going to Halifax. 
       My companion is Elder Hable (like table but with an H) and he's really good. He's going to New Caledonia, which is by Australia. He took French for 6 years, and he's by far the best of our district so far. He likes baseball, favorite team is the Red Sox, so that's a plus, (Raelene) and is really kind to everyone. He got made the District leader last night, so we have to go pick up the mail twice a day for everyone. Speaking of the district, we have two Welsh missionaries, one from London, and a Romanian, so surprising diversity.
       My P day is Friday, so you can expect to hear from me then. So far today we got up at 5:50 to go to the temple for the first session with our entire district. We'll probably go play some volleyball later and then practice the first lesson in Preach my Gospel to teach.
       The 4 other guys in our room are Elder Cowley, Elder Ludkte, Elder James and Elder Bearnson. They are really cool, and they tell us that we'll pretty much be where they are in a week, but it doesn't feel that way. 
       The food here isn't that great. The lunches and breakfasts have been much better then the dinners, but it's definitely not worth standing in line for seconds! Normally it's enough anyway. The older Elders tell me there's ice cream on Wednesday, but I haven't seen any, so maybe they're just making it up...
       Thank you to all of you guys, and see ya in 2 years minus 3 days! (sorry, im not doing the math)

Elder Marsh


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